Not a bad week

[AjBalls]

A few days ago a smaller rat, that I had no idea was pregnant, dropped 12 baby rats. 3 days later, my biggest female, who I knew was pregnant, dropped 12 babies too. None of the babies made it 3 days though. And on Thanksgiving my most anticipated female (African rat) dropped 8 babies. And I must say, African rat babies are uuuuggllyyy!

Now at the moment I have another heavily pregnant female rat and a heavily pregnant African rat. And two more rats that are just putting on weight.

My male has been a stud. Breeding every female in sight. Which leads me to a question. When you observe, if you do, your males breeding a female does he seem to "groom" his ummm... hmm.. how do I say this... penis... right after "the job is done"???

[Chubbz]

ya i seen it...thats what they do i guess

[frankykeno]

Sounds like things are rockin along well with the rat colony.

My male has been a stud. Breeding every female in sight. Which leads me to a question. When you observe, if you do, your males breeding a female does he seem to "groom" his ummm... hmm.. how do I say this... penis... right after "the job is done"???

Yep male rats are very (how do I say this nicely) "hygiene conscious" LOL. They thoroughly clean themselves after every mating.

[AjBalls]

Sounds like things are rockin along well with the rat colony.



Yep male rats are very (how do I say this nicely) "hygiene conscious" LOL. They thoroughly clean themselves after every mating.

Good to know. Just yesterday he was running after every female in sight! Which is like 7, since I pulled out the heavily pregnant one. At first I was thinking he had some type of STD

[AjBalls]

Alright, the heavily pregnant female rat just popped about 30 minutes ago. Gave birth to 9 babies.

[AjBalls]

Whoops, just popped another, make that 10! So 40 babies in the past week. Think I might grow these ones out a little...

[AjBalls]

Make it 11...

[frankykeno]

LOL Maybe that's why they don't get STD's! Sounds like your female rat isn't done yet. She'll finish up when she's ready - looks like she's popping out a decent sized litter for you.

[Ginevive]

Neato, I love when they give me larger litters. I had one last month that gave me only 2 babies! She was older anyway and is now digesting in my friend's BCI's stomach. But I had a girl give me 13 babies overnight now.. so I am happy too.

[AjBalls]

Final count was 11. I'm glad this breeding project has really kicked off. My first attempt took me 4 months to get one litter. Second attempt took only about 2 months to get the first. This one has taken a bit longer since I bought all the females as small rats. But its really paying off now.